Developing Sustainable Alternatives from Destroyed Buildings Waste for Reconstruction Projects

Perspectives for Sustainable Resource Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste in Developing Countries: Applications and Alternatives

Facade Reconstruction of Destroyed Buildings Using Historical Photographs

ABSTRACT A methodology for the metric reconstruction of the planar surface of facades of destroyed buildings using historical single-view photographs has been presented in this work. The methodology is based on using a-priori object properties like linearity, parallelism, perpendicularity, symmetry etc. in addition to information extracted from the photographs. The methodology involves the dete...

Elimination of Waste and Inefficient Facilities in Existing Buildings for Sustainability in Developing Nations

A major reason why many developing nations have not made significant advancement in sustainable development (SD) agenda is the neglect of existing building stock which forms the bulk of built assets. Although sustainable development is a universal challenge, it cannot be approached in the same way for all nations, but rather practical response can be defined nationally or locally. This paper re...

Mobile Motion-Tracking System for Rescue Work at Destroyed Buildings

We propose a new mobile motion-traclung system for rescue work, which is able to detect and track motion of buildings destroyed by disasters including earthquakes. This system includes two mobile computers with digital cameras to detect two-dimensional motion of the buildings from different angles. The two computers are communicated with serial interfaces and the two-hmensional position in an i...

Technology for Sustainable Agriculture from Waste

Sustainability in agriculture is the primary need of the country, especially for farmers in the society. Sustainable agriculture depends on, a. the quality and quantity of irrigational water used, b. Status of soil in the Land and c. the dimatic conditions of the environment. In most of the locations and for particularly in coastal regions such a ideal conditions could not be possible. Developi...